“I thought they were so dysfunctional that it should be amplified, that it should almost be encouraged,” said Stark. “Peter had the opposite view; he wanted to mold them into a little bit more of a polished band. I felt that if you reined them in, what would you have? You’d have a mediocre band at best, with a good songwriter, who wouldn’t amount to anything. I thought the only chance the band had was to amplify the dysfunction . . . though they would go far beyond my imagination in being dysfunctional.”
